Hey everyone,
I've been simmering over a topic for such a long time now: how to explain my way of freelancing in the best way? Questions about making it as an artist are the ones that reach me most frequently. I considered doing a YouTube video series, some kind of direct session, an e-book.
I think it's time to stop overthinking. So in the next couple weeks, I'm going to release short articles to Patreon, all circling around freelancing! Maybe I'll turn these into an e-book or whatever later, but I just want to first write it all down. And you should be the ones reading it first.
It would be really cool to hear your most pressing questions: what would you expect to learn from such a guide? What's your missing freelance puzzle piece you can't get a hold of?
So far my list includes the following topics:
How to get clients
Networking/how to put yourself and your work out there
Professionalism: How to be easy to work with and get recommendations
Portfolio management
Portfolio reviews for Art Critique Club members
The style bias (generalist vs. specialist)
Why it's important to find your niche, and how to find it
Understanding clients, meeting their needs and dealing with rejection from them
Money and budgets
How much money you should charge for what
Negotiating budgets with clients
When and why raising your budgets makes sense
Contracting: licensing fees, copyright, how to identify red flags in contracts
Income streams and how to manage them, building passive income streams
How to organize your time
How to handle multiple projects at once
Misc topics
Do you need an agency? Pros and Cons
Building a personal brand
Social Media as a freelancer
My personal story of freelancing/how it all started for me
...let me know!
I hope to have a nice catalogue of articles in the end, that will help everyone who's a beginner artist get their foot into the industry's doors.
Please shoot over your ideas for articles if you have any, so I can make this list even longer 😊
Thanks!Stefan